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Tuesday, February 2, 1954 THE BATTALION' PageA| Varsity Loses 80-55 to Hogs; Lon Morris Drops Fish, 71-60 A&M’s basketball forces last night dropped a road doubleheader, the varsity losing to Arkansas, 80- 55, and the Fish bowing to Lon Morris junior college, 71-60. The varsity game was close for Gallagher Called Wrong on Ag Track Hy JERRY WIZIG Battalion Sports Editor With one blinding exception, A&M hasn’t had too much to boast about the last few years in the matter of winning Southwest conference championships in the major sports— football, baseball, basketball and track. That one exception is the track teams of Col. Frank C. Anderson and Ray Putnam. In the past seven seasons, the track boys have won the conference title six times—a pretty fair batting average. Yet, in Saturday’s issue of the Houston Post, Jack Gal lagher wrote that “A&M’s method of awarding full track scholarships on the basis of a first in the Southwest con ference meet, four-fifths of a scholarship for second place, etc., is responsible for the Aggies’ DECLINE in the sport.” That word DECLINE was a big slip, but it wasn’t even the first one. The headline read, “Aggies Tie Up Scholar ships And the Track Team Suffers.” The real fact is that A&M does NOT tie up its track scholarships* This is the way the system works, as explained by Col. Andy: Rewards Those Who ‘Come Through’ On an average, about one-fourth of the amount of money allowed him by the athletic department is used in helping freshman track men. The other three-fourths is used in helping varsity competi tors who have proven their ability in competition. Through this method of encour aging and rewarding those track men who “come through” the most, A&M does not tie up its track re sources in high school stars who Ragsdale Was To bolster his position, Ander- ton brought up the case of Bobby Ragsdale, last year’s high point man at the SWC meet. “Why, that boy came from nothing to be the conference’s high scorer,” he said. “He came here without any kind of help except an Opportuni ty Award.” Ragsdale later was given a full scholarship.) In reply to Gallagher’s com ments, Anderson said, “I was just may or may not be stars in college competition. Col. Andy emphasized that this does not mean the Cadets do not go after high school stars. “We are perfectly willing to award full scholarships to very outstanding high school stars,” he said. “But we don’t believe in giving a boy a full scholarship just because he may have won a state title, al though we sometimes offer them partial aid.” Good Example set-up, which I think has proven to be a good one and which we hope will pay off again in the long- run.” Said Anderson, “I think our scholarship set-up is better for these reasons: We can divide up the same amount of funds among more good boys. We can reward boys for achieve ment in proportion to their efforts, trying to tell him that I didn’t rather than live up to contracts for think we would win the champion- full scholarships made to high ship again this year. I had no school stars who in some cases nev- idea that he would think I was cr get eligible or win very few finding fault with our scholarship points,at the conference meet.” Gallagher Wrong On Ag Record Anderson also added, “I’m cer- Oh, by the way, Mr. Gallagher, tainly not unhappy with our show ing of the last few seasons. In fact, I think it’ll be good for us to have to fight to take second )!ace for a change.” you said that the Aggies had been SWC track champs seven of the last eight seasons. Thanks for the unintentional pat on the back, but the record book shows six in the last seven seasons—1947, ’48, ’49, ’51, ’52 and ’53. However, you may be right when the end of the season rolls around. TODAY & WEDNESDAY .Warner Bros Ijonn Wayne AND) DEVIN!« umR • IlIMa. WELLMAN * WAYNE FtllOWS production . distributed e LAST DAY Mmwmm ...They called, him Hondo « 3 Dimension ™ WarnerColor STARTS WEDNESDAY nancy oisom ’Mural Officers To Meet Thursday The first meeting of the in tramural athletic officers for the second semester will be held in room 301, Goodwin hall, at 5 p. m. Thursday to discuss the new entry forms and give each unit its pre sent intramural ranking. This is a very important meet ing and all officers are urged to be present, said Barney Welch, di rector of intramural athletics. There will be no intramural events this week because of the start of the new semester. NOW SHOWING "'A Complete Movie of Bryan” COME SEE YOURSELF IN THE MOVIE'S i A (7i*bBS«s Wfy// Keefe Brasseue Marilyn Erskine \ I tS.EPD e CANTQg I w iL , v r the first half, the Hogs leading 33- 27 at its end, but Guard Floyd Sagely popped in three straight field goals in the third period and Arkansas was “in”. Forward John Fortenberry, the Aggies’ top conference scorer, sat out most of the second and third quarters after getting four quick A&M (56) Fg Ft Pf Tp Fortenberry,? 2 ' Addison, f 2 } Mcllhenney, f 0 ( Homeyer, f 1 ( Martin, c 2 i Hearne, c 0 t McCrory, g 3 c Hardgrove, g 4 4 Boring, g 1 S Kennedy, g 0 C Totals ARKANSAS (8(1) Elkins, f 2 B. Smith, f . 1 N. Smith, f 2 Adams, f 3 Telford, f «. . . 0 Shaw, c 6 Barnett, g 4 Sagely, g 5 McDonald, g 0 Scroggins, g 4 Sailer, g 1 Cable, g . 2 Givens, g 0 . 15 25 24 56 Fg Ft Pf Tp .30 20 28 80 Totals Score by periods: A&M 12 15 15 13—50 Arkansas 17 16 21 26—80 fouls. Forward James Addison and Guard Joe Hardgrove led the Cadets with 12 points each. Hog Center Ray Shaw led all with 14. In the freshmen game, a “cold” second quarter by the Fish gave the Bearcats a 29-24 halftime lead, which widened to 50-39 at the end of the third period. Lon Morris had a 15-6 advantage in the second quarter scoring. Fish guard Ted Harrod dumped in 23 points and was the only Ag gie to score in double-column fig ures. FRESHMEN MOX SCORES A&M (60) > Fg Ft Gattis .2 1 Smith 2 Mehaffey . 4 Harrod 10 Stephens FI Tp 0 Phipps 2 Harvey Blood 2 Penfield Total EON MORRIS (71) Emerson Tubbs Burrrow Evans Roach .25 10 30 60 Fg Ft FI Tp .2125 .6 3 1 15 . 7 12 2 26 .2 5 3 9 .5 6 3 16 Total 22 17 11 71 Score by quarters: A&M Fish 18 6 15 21—60 Lon Morris 14 15 21 21—71 Tigers Play Waller Here A&M Consolidated high school’s Tigers play Waller tonight on the home court and have to win to stay in the running for the district 25-A title. The Consolidated B team, unde feated in eight games, meets the Waller B squad in a 7 p. m. opener. The varsity game starts at 8:15. Friday night the Tigers lost their first district contest to Bell- ville, 48-41. They now have a 3-1 league mark and a 15-2 season re cord and will end their district sea son in Sealy Friday night. The Brahmas have a 2-1 district record with three games to play. Bellville took a 25-22 half-time lead and led, 37-33, at the three quarter mark. The score was tied, 10-all, at the end of the first quart er. The Tigers had beaten Bell ville, 48-40, here earlier in the sea son. BOX SCORE Consolidated (41) Fg Ft Pf Pt Cooner 4 1 1 9 Beasley 1 O 0 2 Bonnen 1 Jackson 1 Anderson 5 Carx'oll 2 Totals Bellville (18) Wright Uechert 4 Sica 6 Koehn Moon Witte Totals 14 13 9 41 Fg Pt Pf Tp 2 2 2 6 Fred Anderson led Consolidated i In the curtain-raiser, the Tiger with 12 points. Witte and Sica had B team, sparked by Norman 14 and 12, respectively, for the Floeck’s 12 points, won a 35-18 de- Brahmas. cision. TAKE THE FAST WAY PIONBEH % Flights Daily to Houston Lv. 3:16 pm, 8:36 pm Excellent connections to NEW ORLEANS, BEAUMONT — PORT ARTHUR. The Crestline Skylincr It’s another Ford first in styling . . . another Ford exclusive in the low-price field. 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